Spacecraft in Art History

Most people alive today feel that the UFO phenomena
began on June 24, 1947 with the Kenneth Arnold sighting of nine flying "saucer-shaped"
craft. However, most ufologists believe that the militaries of this world have
been wondering about UFO's since the early 1930's. As a teenager I remember
seeing books in the library on art, old masterpieces in which were depictions
of spaceships. Due to a couple of marriages, and raising a child, I put some
of this behind me. Then as I began this walk of mine, I decided it was time
to find some of this "old" proof that man has be fascinated by UFO's
for far longer than most people believe. So I went on a quest and the best avenue
of search these days is of course the Internet.

While cruising through the Internet
I've come across a couple of sites that have artwork from past and current centuries
that include within them obvious spaceships or crafts. Some even show beings
inside of the crafts. Therefore, as a part of this website I've included some
images that I've taken from these sites. Before the images you will find the
url's in order that you can go to these sites yourself and see them as I first
did. However, one of the main sites that I have listed here is a site in French.
If you go to http://www.altavista.com
and click on the link there that says "translate", it will open up
a Babel Fish page. Then just cut and paste, or copy and paste, the url and put
it into the translator, and it will translate the whole website for you. This
French site is a WONDERFUL extensive site! The first website that I'm offering
to you is http://www.karenlyster.com/jesusufo.html and
it contained an image that I'd searched the longest for:

The
Baptism of Christby
Aert de Gelder (1645-1727)

"I confirm that the painting
of The Baptism of Christ by Aert de Gelder (1645-1727). Details of the
painting are as follows: Oil on canvas, 48.3 x 37.1 cm. Given by Lord Alwym
Compton, Bishop of Ely, 1905 PROV: Marianne, Countess of Alford, who bequeathed
oil to the donor, 1888. Perhaps circa 1710.

The author of this site had the
following to say on the matter (I did edit grammar in the following; please
excuse the poor translations below):

NB: Other paintings showing Jesus Christ and UFO are very presents in art until
French revolution when the subject was began to be a threat for Vatican (people
before this time were uneducated and does not interested in art and paintings,
except in the Renaissance time were paintings and UFO are particularly presents)
De Gelder as Rembrandt had access to Vatican's paintings and literature on Jesus
Christ. Ha had surely see other paintings with UFOs and decided to do the same.
Everyone knows that Vatican owns secret paintings and literature: all works
that put the religion in dander were censured. Other pics in arts and UFO in
history on this French website:

The remaining images are from
the French site referred to earlier. I have included any information about the
images that were with them. I have also included the url address for each of
the pages of the site where the images reside.

In one of the
oldest churches of Russia, in Svetitskhoveli, in Georgia, one can see this
astonishing fresco, dated from the 17th century, where, on each side of
the cross, one can distinguish two flying objects, inside each of which
a face looks at the scene of the crucifixion.

In Hamburg
on November 4, 1697 many witnesses observed two luminous wheels.

One can
see a strange disc on a 1680 French coin.

In
Nice, the inhabitants see three strange luminous vessels which evolve/move
at high speed above the city. The three vessels stop close to the fortress
and go down to the short-nap cloth from the floods where they cause a fort
and noisy boiling with release of a coloured vapor ochre-red.

To the great stupor of the badauds, two beings humanoïdes, to large
head and the large luminous eyes, vêtus of a kind of scaled red combination
of money, connected to their vessels by tubes, will deliver themselves during
several hours to strange work.

In 1600, Bonaventura
Salimbeni (1567-1613), painted this work baptized Glorification of
Eucharistie visible in San Pietro in the church of San Lorenzo.

August 7, 1566,
of the very many discs, white and black appear in the sky of Basle, in Switzerland
while moving; all the population sees them.

April
14, 1561, with the rising of the sun, the inhabitants of Nuremberg, in Germany,
have an alarming vision "In addition to balls of red, bluish or black
color, and discs circular, one saw two large pipes, in which small and large
pipes were three balls, also four and more ".

In
1496, in The Annunciation preserved at the National Gallery
of London, Carlo Crivelli (1430-1496) replaced the Gabriel Archangel by
a "UFO" which launches a luminous ray on the face of the Virgin.

The "Legend
of the Cross" is a table painted by Piero della Francesca (1416-1492)
in which one can notice two clouds which have the shape and the movement
of discs, flying to the horizontal one.

In Thébaïde
of Paolo Ucello (1397-1475), one sees in the center of the scene a discoidal
object of form surmounted of a cupola, painted moving.

Over the fabric
of Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), or Domenico Ghirlandino, The Virgin
and Midsummer's Day Child, preserved at Palazzo Vecchio, a man and
his dog observe an object attentively sinks pretence to emit luminous rays.

On the fabric of Masolino
Da Panicale (1383-1440), The Miracle of Snow, Jesus and Mary
are represented above lenticular clouds.

This painting
on wood which one can see with the castle of the Count Dotremond in Belgium,
(unknown date and artist), represents Moïse receiving the Tables of
law, in the sky meteorites or UFO appear.

To the 14th
century, on a fresco of the monastery of Detjani to Kosovo, gone back to
1350, one can see two characters in two flying objects one continuing the
other. The characters looking at this strange scene seem frightened.

Medieval tapestry
créee in 1330 with Our Lady, describing the life of Marie.

Medieval
tapestry of the Basilica of Beaume, describing the life of Marie.

There is
more than 15,000 years before Jesus Christ, in the caves of the south-west
of France, of the prehistoric men drew so much curious objects, that the
paleontologists had to draw up a catalogue of the representations at the
time of their discovery. But since the assumption of a connection with
the vision of UFO was made, nobody any more speaks about it, prone taboo!
These representations can be seen in the caves of Cougnac and Pech Merle
in the Batch, of Combarelles in the Dordogne like in Altamira in Spain.

Thus ends our UFO gallery of fine
art for now! If you know of other sites with different images, please
send me the url. Or, if you are also a collector of these images, please contact
me. If you wish to share or add your url to this page, contact me: